NASA mess ups have cost about a billion dollars this week

[Jeremy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_(rocket)

Yeah... just in one week...

 

[amy31416]

Uh oh...prepare for the grammar police to come and kick your ass....

If both Anti-Fed and MelissaWV are online, you are in for a hurtin.'

(Damn, I hope it was okay to put the apostrophe after the period in that last sentence.)

 

[Jeremy]

Uh oh...prepare for the grammar police to come and kick your ass....

If both Anti-Fed and MelissaWV are online, you are in for a hurtin.'

(Damn, I hope it was okay to put the apostrophe after the period in that last sentence.)

Whoops

 

[Vessol]

End NASA now.

 

[emazur]

If a private company incurred costs on government of a billion dollars in a week, the left would blame the situation on an "unregulated, free market". But when a government entity does the same, it's just the collateral damage that comes from "progress" and nothing will be said of the matter. Consider how BP was raked over the coals (not that it was entirely undeserved) over the oil spill, but when have you ever seen leftists bitch about government's failures like the TVA ash spill ("the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States")? Did they rail against the "regulated, unfree market" when NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and killed 7 people?

 

[Thomas]

it makes me sad to see NASA fail

 

[Flash]

If a private company incurred costs of a billion dollars in a week, the left would blame the situation on an "unregulated, free market". But when a government entity does the same, it's just the collateral damage that comes from "progress" and nothing will be said of the matter. Consider how BP was raked over the coals (not that it was entirely undeserved) over the oil spill, but when have you ever seen leftists bitch about government's failures like the TVA ash spill ("the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States")? Did they rail against the "regulated, unfree market" when NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and killed 7 people?

Or roads:

Were a government t o demand the sacrifice of 46,700 citizens' each year,
there is no d o u b t tha t a n outraged public would revolt. If a n organized
religion were t o plan the immolation of 523,335 of the faithful in a decade,'
there is no question that it would be toppled. Were there a Manson-type cult
that murdered 790 people t o celebrate Memorial Day, 770 t o usher in the
Four th of July, 915 t o commemorate Labor Day, 960 a t Thanksgiving, and
solemnized Christmas with 355 more deaths,3 surely The New York Times
would wax eloquent a b o u t the carnage, calling for the greatest manhunt this
nation has ever seen. If Dr . Spock were t o learn of a disease that killed 2,077
children4 under the age of five each year, o r were New York City's Andrew
Stein t o uncover a nursing home tha t allowed 7,346 elderly people t o die
a n n ~ a l l y , ~there would be no stone unturned in their e f for t s t o combat the
enemy. T o compound the horror, we r e p r i v a t e enterprise responsible for this
butchery, a cataclysmic reaction would ensue: investigation panels would be
appointed, the justice department would seek o u t antitrust violations, com-
pany executives would be jailed, and a n outraged hue and cry for nationali-
zation would follow.
T h e reality, however, is that the government is responsible for such
slaughter-the toll t aken o n our nation's roadways. Whether a t the local,
state, regional, o r national level, it is government that builds, runs, manages,
administers, repairs, and plans for the roadway network. There is no need
for the government t o take over; it is already fully in charge, and with a
vengeance. I believe there is a better way: the market place. Explaining how
a free market can serve t o provide road a n d highway service, as it has
furnished us with practically every other good and service at our disposal, is
the objective of this article.

source: https://mises.org/journals/jls/3_2/3_2_7.pdf

 

[Anti Federalist]

"And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords."

 

[archangel689]

Calling this a loss really isn't accurate. This rocket is made by Orbital Sciences, which is a part of the COTS program. Orbital Sciences is a private company. The failure is really Orbital Sciences. And these failures are not surprising as this is a new rocket.

http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/release.asp?prid=769